This study aims to explore the relationship between identity fusion, national identity and social
distance towards the national collective in young members of Lima’s Jewish community. To
this end, questionnaires were administered via web to assess the constructs in 100 members of
Lima’s Jewish community. All individuals volunteered. For the results, Pearson’s correlation
analysis, comparisons of means and repeated measures were performed. The findings showed
that people with a fused identity, self-identified significantly with the degree of identification
with the country and the Peruvian collective self-esteem, in comparison to their non-fused
peers. In addition, there is a social distance towards the Peruvian group in regard to more
proximal aspects; for example, by don’t getting married to non-Jewish Peruvians. Finally,
when comparing the study variables that referred to both groups, the fused individuals tended
to favor the Jewish community in the auto-stereotypical areas of “morality” and “competence”
and collective self-esteem.